Video Blog: 5 Key Takeaways from Acumatica Summit 2019

During the last week of January, about 15 of us from SWK Technologies attended Acumatica Summit 2019 in Houston, TX. It was Acumatica’s largest Summit to date and the 5th year in a row I’ve attended this event. The setup was typical with a kick-off celebration Sunday evening, Keynotes and sessions Monday and Tuesday, and finally training Wednesday through Friday.

In this video blog, I’ve put together a list of five key takeaways from the overall experience:

2. SWK is a recognized as a strong partner, winning 3 awards and boasting two Acumatica MVPs.

Two MVP awards, one for myself and the other to SVP Mary Abdian, who’s received it three years in a row

What does this mean for our customers? You are working with the right partner, recognized by Acumatica for success with the Acumatica Cloud ERP product. As our experience with Acumatica grows, our customers benefit.

3. The ISV ecosystem has grown

I remember the Acumatica Summit in Long Beach, CA five years ago. The ISV’s were given tables around the central room the keynotes were given. This year, ISV’s lined the inside of the room we ate meals in, as well as a large exhibit hall.

One of the ISV’s I’d like to give a shout out to is Velixo Reports, a powerful tool that allows Acumatica users to access Acumatica directly from within Microsoft Excel. This is really the first native enhancement for Excel for Acumatica Cloud ERP. I met up with Gabriel Michaud, who used to work for Acumatica to see just how easy setting this up is. He showed me how in a few clicks you can install the Excel add-on, authorize the connection with your credentials, and start building reports in minutes in Excel. I’m looking forward to sharing this with our existing and new customers.

4. Acumatica Technology Enhancements

In all of our product demonstrations about Acumatica Cloud ERP, we make sure to highlight the fact that Acumatica is a Technology company with a great ERP system. The Acumatica team demonstrated a wide variety of functionality updates, flexing their tech muscle.

Amazon Alexa

Conditional formatting with colors

Machine Learning/AI

Drone Enabled Warehouse

Even Smarter Help Documentation

Mike C – Low to no code customizations

5. Acumatica Functionality Enhancements

The release notes for Acumatica 2019 R2 includes 150 pages of new functionality that is shipped with 2019 R2

Project Accounting – Project Base Currency

Native Scanning Capability/WMS

Related Companies with Different Year Ends

Approving Expense receipts/claims from within Outlook

Vertical Editions

Field Service Enhancements

Manufacturing (Engineering Change Controls)

If you attended the summit, I hope that you are just as excited about this product as all of us here at SWK are. If you couldn’t make it in person this time, I hope that you found this short video to be helpful. Acumatica did announce that Acumatica Summit 2020 will take place in Las Vegas, so I hope to see you there in person next year!